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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Did you catch any of the lunar eclipse?

I did. It was eerie, just as they said it would be. The earth's shadow passed over the moon's surface, bathing the entire orb in a reddish-orange glow. It was a little clumsy peering at it through a thick filter so that I didn't go blind, but I got quite a good look at it.

I tried to take some photos of the event with my ancient digital camera, but they all came out pretty poor. Here's a Photoshop-enhanced version of a shot I took from our back deck around 4 o'clock:

Not much, eh? But just so that readers of this blog don't feel deprived, here is a high-powered computer simulation of what it actually looked like:

Dear Oregbear,
At first I was going to write and say Jack was just being funny about the thick filter and the eclipse, but then I realized you're just being funny, too. Nice use of the double-bag technique originally pioneered in grocery stores.
What puzzled me about the post is the last picture. I don't think that's the moon at all. I think it's an orange.

I slept through the middle part. The plot dragged and the action was slow.

Didn't some site somewhere have a 'live' feed, maybe with voice-over analysis and color commentary?

Astro logically, as much as the Pisces - Virgo polar dimension is denoted as 'church - state,' then the symbolism is an eclipse of 'church,' meaning the spirit or spirituality of people, and the showing or standing of 'state,' meaning the heirarchical and bosspower (also, sociopathy) which enslaves spirit. In other words, prayers to a higher power got blacked out, the only effective power is bodily force now, for the next six months (until the next eclipse).

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